Peter Hambro

{{Short description|British businessman (born 1945)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Peter Hambro | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Peter Charles Percival Hambro | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|01|18|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Eton College | alma_mater = Aix-Marseille University | occupation = Businessman | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = Karen Brodrick | children = 3 sons, including Jay Hambro | parents = | relatives = Percy Hambro (grandfather) }} '''Peter Charles Percival Hambro''' (born 18 January 1945) is a British businessman who is one of the founders of Petropavlovsk plc, (formerly Peter Hambro Mining), a gold mining business in Russia.

==Early life== Peter Hambro was born on 18 January 1945,<ref name=tele>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/2789337/Peter-Hambro-The-rise-of-a-dedicated-gold-bull.html Peter Hambro: The rise of a dedicated gold bull] Daily Telegraph, 3 May 2008</ref> the son of Lt-Col Everard Bingham Hambro, and grandson of Major-General Sir Percy Hambro. One of his paternal ancestors, Carl Joachim Hambro, was a Danish banker. Hambro was educated at Eton College and Aix-Marseille University.<ref name=tele/>

==Career== Hambro initially worked at ''Spicer & Pegler'', an accounting firm.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webb |first=Tim |date=30 April 2006 |title=Peter Hambro: An encounter with Mr Goldfinger |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/peter-hambro-an-encounter-with-mr-goldfinger-6102337.html |work=The Independent}}</ref> He then briefly worked at Hambros Bank before moving on to ''Smith St Aubyn'', a discount house, where he became a Managing Director in 1973.<ref name=tele/> From 1983 to 1990 he worked at ''Mocatta & Goldsmid'', a bullion house, where he became Deputy Managing Director.<ref name=peer>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p23666.htm#i236653|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com}}</ref>

In 1994 with Pavel Maslovskiy, Hambro co-founded Peter Hambro Mining,<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Hambro: BIS, Central Banks Are Rigging Gold Market Using Bullion Banks' Paper Gold |url=https://or.fr/actualites/peter-hambro-bri-banques-centrales-manipulent-marche-or-2800 |website=or.fr |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref> which was renamed Petropavlovsk plc in 2009.<ref name="telegraphnightmarewhenjuly">{{cite news|last1=Critchlow|first1=Andrew|title=Peter Hambro's nightmare when his Russian Gold miner nearly went out of business|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/11718061/Peter-Hambros-nightmare-when-his-Russian-Gold-miner-nearly-went-out-of-business.html|accessdate=April 26, 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=July 4, 2015}}</ref> He served as its chairman until June 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=Peter Hambro ousted from gold miner Petropavlovsk after losing board battle with Russian investors|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/06/22/peter-hambro-ousted-gold-miner-petropavlovsk-losing-board-battle/|accessdate=11 September 2017|publisher=The Telegraph|date=22 June 2017}}</ref> Petropavlovsk went into administration in July 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.cityam.com/petropavlovsk-plc-to-suspend-trading-and-file-for-administration/ |title=Sanctions bite: London-listed Russian mining firm Petropavlovsk to suspend trading and file for administration|newspaper=City AM|date=12 July 2022|access-date=13 July 2022}}</ref>

==Personal life== Hambro married Karen Brodrick in 1968.<ref name=tele/> They have three sons.<ref name=peer/>

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